When Funeral Vomit crawled out of the
Colombian underground in 2020, the world was in chaos. The band turned that
atmosphere of sickness and dread into their language, and since then, they’ve
stayed loyal to their vision of death metal that sounds as if it’s been exhumed
from the very soil. Their debut “Monumental Putrescence” made a clear statement
of intent, and two years later “Upheaval Of Necromancy” takes that same path
with even more rotting precision.
This second album is
an exercise in horror and ritual. Everything about it reeks of the old crypts, the
damp air, the smell of decay, the sense that something buried is stirring
again. The production is thick and suffocating, guitars tuned low enough to
rattle coffins, drums hammering like shovels against a tomb lid, and vocals
that sound less human and more like a ghost roaring through decomposed lungs.
“Hematophagia” grinds
forward like a slow bleed, “Altars Of Doom” rips through in a burst of carnage,
and “Cryptic Miasma Stench” sinks the listener deep into the rot. By the time
“Outro (Effluvia Of The Mass Grave)” arrives, it’s not so much closure as it is
burial, the last handful of soil thrown over the listener’s head.
Funeral
Vomit isn’t interested in subtlety or modern
sensibilities. Their music is a ritual act, a hymn to decomposition. “Upheaval
Of Necromancy” sounds as if it was recorded inside a tomb, and that’s its
power. It’s unrefined, disgusting, and loyal to its purpose, death metal in its
most cadaverous form.
A fitting continuation
for a band that thrives in the graveyard, “Upheaval Of Necromancy” confirms Funeral Vomit as faithful disciples of the old
ways, dragging their instruments through the dirt and emerging with a sound
that belongs to the worms. For those who crave death metal that smells like
formaldehyde and damp soil, this one delivers exactly that.
Score: 7.0
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